FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Steve Langasek wrote:

> > My prescription, respectfully submitted, comes down to this:
> > 1.    Ctlib.    Follow Sybase.
> > 2.    Dblib.    All internal representation in UTS-8.
> > 3.    ODBC.     Unicode pass-thru.
> 
> Doesn't the FreeTDS ODBC driver exist as a wrapper around one of the
> lower-level APIs?  For varying definitions of 'pass-thru', then, this sounds
> right to me.
> 
dblib, ct-lib, and ODBC all ride atop libtds.  So they are all on equal
footing regarding access to those nuances. Sybase on the other hand, has
ODBC sit atop ct-lib which makes in rather inefficient.

This stuff has my head spinning... I tried to look into how dblib and
ctlib may handle multibyte character sets but didn't particularly turn up
anything.  The Sybase International Developer's Guide was a little opaque
on the matter.

Definately post 0.52 material.

> > I'll stop here, before Brian tells me that the very next suggestion I make
> > had better be expressed in 'C'.
> 
> Perhaps I should start looking deeper into the FreeTDS code, for both of our
> sakes? :)
> 
> Steve Langasek
> postmodern programmer
>